Word: ruralization
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...class in a country of only 4 million people in an area the size of the state of Delaware, the contrast between rich and poor is appalling. Just 10 minutes outside Beirut in the Palestinian camps or the Shiite suburbs or 90 minutes outside of Beirut to either the rural north or the south, you realize why Lebanon is still a third-world country. One university researcher here estimates that 90 percent of the population lives below the government poverty line. And that figure would be much higher if it wasn’t for the fact that remittances sent...
...doing church. As rural populations dwindle and the culture drifts away from organized religion, distance wields extra tyranny for the churches. At Kalgoorlie's twin town of Boulder, a group of black Baptist pastors has gathered for the first annual general meeting of the Malarrpa Ministries, an evangelical outreach that services the Aboriginal communities of Laverton, 400 km north of here, and Coonanna, 180 km east, and the town of Norseman, 190 km to the south. "God bless us through the heat, dust and flies," says Norseman deacon Les Schulz. A further 200 km south of Norseman is Esperance. Here...
...might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided to put more journalists onto the possible outbreak of citrus disease in Queensland. "Could be the biggest disaster in Australian rural history," says Mitchell. But the best contender for the splash is shaping up as a story on Australia's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., championed by the paper and about to face the U.S. Senate. The Canberra bureau suspects a growing acceptance within Labor ranks of the key bilateral...
...Back at his desk Whittaker juggles phones and e-mails between checking online news bulletins and fielding text messages from a journalist chasing a terrorism lead in rural Indonesia. He's in the middle of his own whirlwind, the newsroom largely empty of journalists, who are off like honey bees, foraging and collecting. By 3 p.m. he's running again to make the next conference, which hears from each bureau chief via speakerphone, and decides that while the free trade story is firming, it needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference...
...past year. Researchers believe the average number of cases of malaria per year in Africa has quadrupled since the 1980s. A study in the journal Lancet last June reported that the death rate due to malaria has at least doubled among children in eastern and southern Africa; some rural areas have seen a heartbreaking 11-fold jump in mortality. "The death rates from malaria are as high as those from HIV," says Dr. Christa Hook, coordinator of the malaria working group for Doctors Without Borders. "In many ways, it's a kind of silent Holocaust...